HIT Data Model: Databases from the Functional Point of View

Summary: Introduces HIT, a database model organized around functions rather than conventional data structures. Typed lambda calculus supplies a clean, transparent framework for expressing database concepts at multiple levels of abstraction. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9da67b115a78c256
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.1708619e-05
Overall Rank: 9,506 | 36.09%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jiří Zlatuška (University of Brno)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zlatuska_vldb85,
        title = {{HIT Data Model: Databases from the Functional Point of View}},
        author = {Zlatuška, Jiří},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,478	Query Optimization by Stored Queries	1987	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338

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